Re: Autoconf-2.68b possible patch for FreeBSD, MacOS X

[P. Martin]

On Mar 7, 2012, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> Thanks, that helps.  The issue is clearly due to the limited
> 'grep -E' implementation on that platform: it sometimes
> (but not always!) complains 'Regular expression too big'
> for a 938-byte regular expression in the test.
> 
> I hope the following further patch,
> diff --git a/tests/local.at b/tests/local.at
> index 66027e8..40b7318 100644


Good info.  Epic patch.  Problem sovled, and no fails. 
Google search returns a bug in grep-2.5.1 with Lion + fix:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655339#c25
Mine: grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

The collection of patches for 2.68b I used is in the repo.
https://github.com/2bits/actest/blob/master/ac268b.diff
It should be the original 7 in the attachement,
plus Paul's Flaky grep patch
plus Eric's ksh patch
plus Paul's egrep regex too big patch.

And this would be the p1 version of that:
https://raw.github.com/2bits/actest/master/ac268b.diff

Ok thanks ya'll.